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“It is true that he has many bad hair days, but he stands above such considerations as serenely as stands a cloud over a mountain, or a dollop of sour cream over a potato.”
- from the Legend of Dante

Just a few more pictures up, tagged with “day twelve”. We’ve been busy with all kinds of fun activities! Dante, being a baby just twelve days old, finds himself with no empirical basis on which to infer anything about the world in which he finds himself, and so wears this radically skeptical expression most of the time, apparently waiting for necessary truths to be revealed to him by the Cartesian “natural light” (as opposed to the Anheuser-Busch Natural Light). Lacking as he does in philosophical sophistication, he doesn’t know yet how thoroughly Descartes’ methods and conclusion have been refuted by later developments in epistemology. Silly baby!

Also, as we’ve bathed him, we’ve discovered that his hair, which we thought was curly, isn’t. In fact, his “puppy coat” bears a suspicious resemblance to my (and my mom’s) Anarchy Hair, perfectly straight and sticking out of his head at a right angle to the tangent of the scalp, except on the sides where it grows straight down. Barring fundamental advances in hair product technology during his lifetime, he’s doomed to decades of buzz cuts and hats, just like his pa. Of course, I know better than to bet against technology. Here’s hopin’.